Drop-dead easy layout management

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Introduction

• adjust left percentage
• adjust top percentage
• adjust right percentage
• adjust bottom percentage

How to use LayoutManager

1. initializing it
2. giving it controls to manage
3. calling its alignItems() method within your container's SizeChanged event handler

  // Step 1: Initialize the layout manager
  m_layoutMgr.init (this);

  // Step 2: Add controls to the layout manager
  m_layoutMgr.Items.Add
    (new LayoutManagerItem
      (m_editTitle,         // the control
       0,                   // don't change L edge
       0,                   // don't change top edge
       100,                 // grow width by 100% of change
       66));                // grow height by 66% of change
  ...

  private void LayoutManagerDemoFrm_SizeChanged
    (object sender, EventArgs e)
  {
    // Step 3: Instruct the layout manager to align items
    m_layoutMgr.alignItems();
  }

How it works

LayoutManagerItem encapsulates a reference to the control to be repositioned or resized, and four boolean properties that describe the adjustment to be performed.  LayoutManagerItems are stored in LayoutManager's Items property.

Revision history

• 3 Sep 2006
  Added ability to control percentage of change in dimensions.
  -- Eddie Zhou, Ravi Bhavnani
• 1 Jul 2006
  Initial version.
  -- Ravi Bhavnani

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